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America's Overlooked Engineers: Community Colleges and Diversity in Engineering Education
America's Overlooked Engineers: Community Colleges and Diversity in Engineering Education Summary of findings from Engineer of 2020 surveys to capitalize on community college as fruitful grounds for ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems, Supporting Students:Student Engagement, Outreach:Student Recruiting

Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees: Systemic Change to Support Diverse Student Pathway
Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees: Systemic Change to Support Diverse Student Pathway Report outlining career pathways in STEM, including issues of identity and belonging, instructional ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Equity and Inclusion
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Professional Development:Diversity/Inclusion, Curriculum Development, Professional Development, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Institutional Systems, Supporting Students

Increasing the use of evidence-based teaching in STEM higher education: A comparison of eight change strategies
Increasing the use of evidence-based teaching in STEM higher education: A comparison of eight change strategies Borrego, M., & Henderson, C. Builds on work by Henderson et al., further analyzing the four ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems

The National Center for Academic Transformation
The National Center for Academic Transformation NCAT is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the effective use of information technology to improve student learning outcomes and reduce the cost of ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Technological Infrastructure, Institutional Systems

Exploring the dynamics of organizational learning: identifying the decision chains science and math faculty use to plan and teach undergraduate courses
Exploring the dynamics of organizational learning: identifying the decision chains science and math faculty use to plan and teach undergraduate courses Hora and Hunter. Describes organizational learning theory as ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems

Describing & Measuring Undergraduate STEM Teaching Practices
Describing & Measuring Undergraduate STEM Teaching Practices Describes practices for measurement of teaching excellence in STEM. Suggested Citation American Association for the Advancement of Science. (2012, ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment, Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Professional Development:Course Evaluation, Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching, Institutional Systems

Science 2.0 blog
Science 2.0 blog Shorter summaries of a think piece by Carl Wieman about what the optimized university would look like, which addresses issues of efficiency. Suggested Citation Wieman, C. (2008, July 28). ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Blog Post
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems

Calculating cost-return for investments in student success
Calculating cost-return for investments in student success This project calculated the cost return on first year programs to enhance student success. It claims all the tuition/fee revenue for the increase in ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Institutional Systems

Becoming Agents of Change in STEM Toolkit
Becoming Agents of Change in STEM Toolkit USC Center for Urban Education, with Dowd, Bensimon, Piqueux. The toolkit provides definitions of change/institutional/empowerment agents, case studies, vignettes, ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: Toolkit
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems, Outreach

The Delta Project
The Delta Project Delta Project is a unit within the American Institute for Research. They cover a lot of hot button cost issues. Their time at present appears to be focused on the higher level debates over value ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Institutional Systems